All the buildings in the center of
Paris are alike too, more so than less.
Six stories, pale champagne colored sandstone facades, beaux arts and
neo-classical decorations, variations on the basic templates. Just like Santa Fe has its stylistic
coherence, so does Paris. Both are
centers of culture and art. And both
date from the 1880s. That is when
Paris continued to perfect itself
as the informal center of the world of high culture, art, style, cuisine, taste
and sophistication. 1889 the
Eiffel Tower opens. Paris spends
the century perfecting itself and now is locked into its own beauty and
splendor. The informal capital of
the world.
1880 the railroad joined Santa Fe
to the larger world. It began to
become the world capital of folk art and craft, of the hunger for the
primitive, the original, hand-made, indigenous, native, the center of the new
world's First People. The world
capital of First People and everyone who wants to honor them, imitate them,
promote them, share their destiny so far as possible. Santa Fe like Paris is a living museum of its own
perfection.
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